{"id":536479,"date":"2022-11-16T11:28:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T05:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=536479"},"modified":"2022-11-16T13:48:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T08:18:16","slug":"how-do-electric-vehicle-batteries-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-do-electric-vehicle-batteries-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How do electric vehicle batteries work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The individual cells in most rechargeable EV batteries today have the same basic components: Electrodes, electrolyte and separator. The positive electrode is called the cathode; the negative electrode is the anode. <\/p>\n<p>The cathode is the single most expensive element, accounting for up to a third of the cost of a battery cell. Most lithium ion batteries today use one of two types of cathodes: Nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) or lithium iron phosphate (LFP). <\/p>\n<p>When the battery is being used \u2014 and its stored energy is being discharged \u2014 tiny particles (called ions) inside the battery travel from the anode to the cathode, through a chemical solution called the electrolyte,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The individual cells in most rechargeable EV batteries today have the same basic components: Electrodes, electrolyte and separator. The positive electrode is called the cathode; the negative electrode is the anode. The cathode is the single most expensive element, accounting for up to a third of the cost of a battery cell. Most lithium ion batteries today use one of two types of cathodes: Nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) or lithium iron phosphate (LFP). When the battery is being used \u2014 and its stored energy is being discharged \u2014 tiny particles (called ions) inside the battery travel from the anode to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}